THE JUDICIARY: Olympian Tussle

Next to the Supreme Court Justices,
the most influential judges in the U.S. are those who sit on famed
"CCA-2"the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit (New York,
Connecticut, Vermont). Last month Chief Judge Thomas Swan retired, at
75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week
President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the jobthe first
important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay
between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one
carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's
bench and...